Hauling-up plant for ships



F. DUWE.

HAULING-UP PLANT FOR SHIPS.

APPICATION FILED MAY 12, 1922- Patented t, 3l, 31922.

Patented @et El, T1922.

r l haar? FRIEDRICH DUWE, OF MAINZ, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MASCHNENFABRIK AUGSBURG-NUERNBERG, Affi., Gl? NUERNBERG, BAVARIA, GERMANY, A

CORPORATION OF GERMANY.

HAULINGr-UP PLANT FOR SHIPS.

Application led May 12,

To (IKZ fui/mm t may concern:

Be it known that l, FRIEDRICH DUWE, residing at Leihnitzstrasse No. 32 U10, Mainz, (zl-erinany, have invented certain .new and useful linprovements in Hauling-Up Plants for Ships, for which l have filed application No. '72175 in Germany on January 17, 19211., ot which the following' is a specification.

lilith hauling-up plants for ships it is often desirable to have a plurality of slips or the like co-operate with hut one hauling`- up truck or carriage, hy means ot which a ship carried hy it :may he transportml to any oit the slips or the like. My invention relates to an arrangement or combination of devices which renders it possible to effect that transportation in a particularly advantageous and simple manm ner. rlhe invention resides in the arrangement of a traverser between the inclined plane forming the hauling up way for the truck or carriage for the ship and the slips or he like, that traverser receiving the truck or carriage with the ship and moving both to any one ot the slips or the like.

The hauling-up way has a track upon which the hauling-up carriage. may loe moved upwards or downwards, as the case mayv he. A track provided also upon the hauling-up carriage itself. rlhis latter track carries a set of couple-d trucks forming an upper carriage as distinguished from the lower carriage termed by the haulingup carriage proper, and havingstocks `tor supporting the ship to he transported. Also the traverser ias a track upon it, and, finally, each slip, too, is furnished with a track. The tracks of the traverser and slips lie in the same plane, and when the set of trucks running upon the hauling-up carriage is in its uppermost position, also its track lies in the before-mentioned plane.

By this arrangement it is possible to haul the set ot trucks carrying the ship upon the tracks of the traverser and fronti this upon any or the tracks of the slips or 'the like.

ln order to make my invention clearer, l refer to the accompanying drawing, which shows, by way of example, one embodiment. Figure l is a side-view of the plant in diagrammatical representation, the lower carriage, the upper carriage, and the ship loe- 1922. Serial No. 560,385.

ingshown in full lines in their lowerniost position, and in dot-ted lines in their uppermost position. Figure 2 .is a plan oi the plant, the dotted lines having heen omitted in this ligure. t

The inclined plane, or hauliiug-up way (l, has a track a] which supports the haulilnrup 'carriage or lower carriage Z) (Figure l) which is also furnished with a track. 'lhe lower carriage consists ot a. lower structure inclined in correspondence with the waiv r and the track al, and ot an upper horizontal structure. lThe ltwo structures are, olf course, rigidly connected with each other. The track ot the upper structure kof the carriage carries a set et coupled trucks b1 which support the ship in awell known manner, viz, hy means of stocks, as usually employed on slips,` etc.

At the upper end ot the haulingaip way is the traverser c c1 which consists of a plurality oit trucks e and ot a track c1 connecting` them with each other. The traverser may be moved along upon rails g (Fig. 2). p There are, in the example illustrated in Figure 2, sir slips (or the like) Z1 (Z2 il d* d d having* each a track rl. In the example in question the track of the slip @Z1 is located in the vertical plane of the track al, but that is of course,lnot absolutelyY necessary. At any rate, the track c1 serves as a. connecting means between the track al and any ot the tracks d, irrespective of how many tracks CZ may exist.

Supposing, a ship has been placed upon the track of the upper carriage t, as illustrated in the right hand portion oil Figure 1, and is to be transported, lor instance, to the track of the slip alt, then the traverser c c1 is made to join the hauling-up way u, after which the lower carriage with the upper carriage b1 and the ship is hauled up until the track or the upper carriage b1 joins the track of the traverserl Now the upper carriage with the ship is hauled over upon the traverser, and the latter is run to the track of the slip d4, after which the upper carriage b1 is hauled over to this track where the ship is deposited upon stocks inthe usual manner. The upper carriage is then returned to the traverser where it may re-v main for further use.

It is obvious that the transportation ot the ship back int-o the Water is effected in the reverse manner.

I cla-im as my invention: f

In a hauling-up plant for ships, the co1n bnaton, of an inclined hauling-up Way, a hauling-up carriage upon said Wely, an upper carriage upon said hauling-up Carriage,

a plurality of slips, a tra-verser arranged- 

